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  1. Japan 1941 attacks Australia instead of PH

    Actually, reaching Pearl stretched their logistics to the limits. Deck loadingbarrels of fuel, filling bilge tanks with fuel oil, all that sort of lunacy was necessary to reach Pearl. The Jpanese didn't have the reach to get to Australia on December 7th. The Japanese didn't make any long range...
  2. WI: D-Day Landings Fail?

    This was less a mis-understanding than a simple case of utter strategic stupidity. A reasonably well informed 10 year old could have figured out that the Red Army had Berlin as their destination by September of 1944.
  3. Nazis win in Russia - What happens to their allies?

    Oh, as a BTW not related the reason for your kick, there is a rather dramatic difference between killing hostages and reacting with deadly force to deadly forces (and if you don't think rocks can kill you, you would be mistaken).
  4. Nazis win in Russia - What happens to their allies?

    So German troops committed atrocities because they were Germans and atrocities are okay as long as you let everyone know that collective punishment is the rule of the day? That's what I thought you meant. Kicked for a week.
  5. WI: D-Day Landings Fail?

    This is one of the points that is generally forgotten. The Allies chose when and where to strike. They spent the better part of a year shaping the battlefield. They didn't attack until the had air supremacy over the battle space (not superiority, supremacy to the point that the Luftwaffe may as...
  6. WI: D-Day Landings Fail?

    Actually, naval gunfire is almost ideal for close support. It tends to be remarkably accurate with the proper spotting (recall that it is meant to hit a ship, a target that is, at most, 1,000 feet long by 150 feet wide and maneuvering at 30 knots). The methodology for calling in artillery...
  7. Nazis win in Russia - What happens to their allies?

    Uh, what? You SO need to explain what you meant by this, and I mean the next time you log in. If you don't, I'll go with what I think you meant.
  8. Nazis win in Russia - What happens to their allies?

    Don't accuse folks of being trolls because they disagree with you.
  9. WI: D-Day Landings Fail?

    The effort was what was required to make it inevitable. The Allies could have gone in with a smaller invasion force, or gone in earlier, or both. In that case the chances of success would have been much lower. If you have it, you are always better off hitting the enemy three or four times as...
  10. London Firestorm

    This is one of those remarkable times that you clearly see that Harris was a homicidal arsonist, even more than his NAZI opponents. Harris actually believed that burning down German Cities was the way to win the war. He went to his death believing that (quite mad actually). Unlike the truly...
  11. WI: D-Day Landings Fail?

    At Normandy? Virtually impossible. The worst you can get is a contained beach head, sort of Anzio writ large, but even there the reality of absolute air supremacy and sea supremacy makes Anzio a less than ideal comparison. The Allies virtually OWNED the sixteen-twenty miles behind the...
  12. If Nazi Germany Used A Different Method Than Genocide....

    People ALWAYS want politicians leading governments dead. For every person who wanted him dead that were tens of thousands who didn't (or didn't care either way, which is actually the same thing.)
  13. Once Upon a December: A Different Decembrist Russia

    It means that your posts are quite information packed and that they present something of a challenge to read on-line in a single go.
  14. How long time before Europe will settle down after an AXIS "Win/stalemate"

    While the removal of Hitler may be seen as a positive, I would have to disagree. His potential replacements were in no way improvements, and in many case would have been worse (Himmler would actually be worse and Goring was... Goring, drug habit & all). Speer would probably have been the best...
  15. A Different Stalingrad

    The only way the Heer can take Stalingrad is in the initial period of contact. They have to secure the river bank side of the city. If they manage that they can reduce the forces inside the now isolated city. It is somewhat questionable if actually taking the city, opposed to bypassing it and...
  16. AHC: Make Joshua Norton's Claims True

    You have been here long enough to know that this sort of nonsensical post doesn't go into pre/post 1900 or FH. Don't.
  17. Could the Axis have stalemated the USA?

    This is the hidden reason that there is no way that the Reich doesn't wind up in a war with the U.S. The minute the U.S. and the UK are allies against Japan, everything changes in the Atlantic. The U.S. can now go after the u-boats hammer and tongs ("How do we KNOW they are not Japanese subs...
  18. Could the Axis have stalemated the USA?

    If the Soviets leave the war on their own terms, which wouldn't happen, the Reich can not defeat the Anglo-Americans, but it also can manage not to lose. It can present a set of options so unpalatable that the W Allies come to an accommodation, but the Reich can not win. If the Reich was able...
  19. UN sanctions on Israel without veto

    Closed at OP request.
  20. Japan 1936 attacks Indochina instead

    In 1936? The Japanese couldn't project force that far out. The IJN was smaller, the carrier aircraft we much less capable, and they would be a LONG way from home. They get curbstomped.
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